Tag Archives: Prof Michael Sharpe
The concept of ‘illness without disease’ impedes understanding of CFS: a response to Sharpe & Greco
The concept of ‘illness without disease’ impedes understanding of chronic fatigue syndrome: a response to Sharpe and Greco, by Steven Lubet, David Tuller in BMJ Medical Humanities. Published Online First: 01 June 2020. [doi: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011807] Article abstract: In a … Continue reading
Conceptualising illness & disease: reflections on Sharpe & Greco
Conceptualising illness and disease: reflections on Sharpe and Greco (2019), by Carolyn Wilshire , Tony Ward in BMJ …Medical Humanities [Published Online First: 11 December 2019] doi: 10.1136/medhum-2019-011756 Article abstract: In a recent paper, Sharpe and Greco suggest that … Continue reading
CFS – an illness without disease?
CFS – an illness without disease? In a recent paper psychologist Prof Michael Sharpe and sociologist Monica Greco discuss CFS as an ‘illness without disease’ in comparison to cancer, a known disease, and argued that, while illness-focused treatments like CBT … Continue reading
Why GET and CBT are controversial in CFS
Why Graded Exercise Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy are controversial in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Michiel Tack in BMJ Medical Humanities blog Sharpe and Greco ask the interesting question of why cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) … Continue reading
Sharpe, Goldsmith & Chalder fail to restore confidence in the PACE trial findings
Response: Sharpe, Goldsmith and Chalder fail to restore confidence in the PACE trial findings, by Carolyn E Wilshire, Tom Kindlon in BMC Psychology 2019 7:19 [Published: 26 March 2019] Abstract: In a recent paper, we argued that the conclusions of the … Continue reading
Responses in BMJ to Prof Sharpe on PACE trial
Pressure grows on Lancet to review “flawed” PACE trial On 22 August Ingrid Torjesen wrote a news item in the British Medical Journal about an article in the Times which highlighted the call to review the results of the PACE trial into … Continue reading
Danish RCT of cognitive behavior therapy for whatever ails your physician about you
PLOS blog post by James Coyne PhD, 7 December 2016: Danish RCT of cognitive behavior therapy for whatever ails your physician about you I was asked by a Danish journalist to examine a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of cognitive behavior … Continue reading
Why has the PACE Study’s “Sister Trial” been “Disappeared” and Forgotten?
David Tuller continues his analysis of research about treatments for CFS with an examination of the FINE trial. A summary has been compiled by MEAction. Virology blog: Trial By Error, Continued: Why has the PACE Study’s “Sister Trial”been “Disappeared” and Forgotten? [9 … Continue reading
Government orders release of PACE trial data
The ME Action blog reports that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered Queen Mary University of London to release anonymized PACE trial data to an unnamed complainant. Queen Mary has 28 days to appeal the decision. The report outlines … Continue reading
PACE trial researchers respond to David Tuller
David Tuller’s three-installment investigation of the PACE trial for CFS, Trial By Error, received much attention in the press. Although the PACE researchers declined David’s efforts to interview them, they subsequently requested the right to reply. Virology blog posted the response of Professors … Continue reading
